Stronger's training log and assorted meanderings

[scoppi]

Im impressed by the quality of yoke displayed in this thread. Major bonus points for including felix. Good luck on your goal of 500, mines 450.

[stronger]

Im impressed by the quality of yoke displayed in this thread. Major bonus points for including felix. Good luck on your goal of 500, mines 450.

the yoke is by far the most important muscle group. As long as my yoke is impressive, I don't care if I have 13" biceps or 20" legs. Felix is a pretty cool guy, very easy going in his videos.

I think I will probably hit 500 on the dl and squat about the same time, and hope to bench 315 next year. We shall see!

thanks for stopping by

[stronger]

pullups

3x5

getting easier. hammer grip is nice. thinking about 440x1x5 for squat tomorrow and 420x3 deadlift, along with DE bench

[stronger]

squat
45x5x2
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x2
315x1
365x1x2
440x1x5

DE bench

155x3x10

deadlift
135x5
225x3
275x1
315x1
365x1
420x3

squats went pretty well. i wanted to do singles today because I was having trouble bouncing the 1st rep on my sets, effectively ruining my chances for the following reps. So, doing 5 first reps helped me practice getting it right the first time. 440 was heavy but wasn't horrible. a few were grinders. I'll either do 1x5 @445 next week or drop down to 420 or so for a set of 5. The drawbacks of doing singles is 1) they take longer, 2) it drains your energy considerably since you are hyping yourself up and unracking the bar 5 times as opposed to just once.

DE bench was fine.

deadlifts were pretty good, i got really out of position and had the bar far out in front on my 3rd rep, which made it a bit more difficult. TBH I was pretty drained from the squat so this was a bit more difficult than it should have been. I will work on position for next week's 425.


I forgot to do my pullups unfortunately

gallon of milk and a pound of bacon for dinner. life is good

[stronger]

ordered a Captain of Crush gripper 1.5 tonight. Should be here by wednesday.

I'm going to start logging my grip work because I'd like it to be more regular and serious and less of an afterthought

I can close the #1 about 5 times on each hand, and I'd like to work up to the #3



--- Also interesting to note, my achilles tendonitis might be resolving itself via an intense rolling session with a baseball friday night. I'll watch this closely, because I'd like to be done with the constant burn I get when I walk fast and far, not to mention the inability to run without stabbing pain

[stronger]

squat
45x5x2
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x2
315x1
350x5x5

press
45x5x2
95x5
115x3,1
145x5x3

shrugs
135x3
225x3
315x3
385x5


squats were fine. yawn

press - new PR! felt great about these, 5th rep on set 3 took forever, stalled right over my head and had to lock it out with lots of struggle but it was a finished set.

shrugs felt good, just gunna go up 10-20lbs/week until I feel like stopping


I forgot pullups. I will stop doing this

[stronger]

hammer grip chins

4x5

felt fine

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squat
275x5x2

bench
185x5x3

snatch

warmed up to 150x1

135x2x8

felt good. Snatch was snappy

just got my 1.5 CoC gripper and almost closed it. onward!

[stronger]

squat

45x5x2
135x5
185x5
225x3
275x2
315x1x2
365x1
420x5

felt good. very heavy. 5th rep was "super ugly" according to my friend whom I trust. I hurt myself on the squats, apparently. lumbar spine, left side. Looks like about L1. a "tweak", you could say. I noted a bit of tightness after 365, but was able to do 420 without any pain.

After that I scrubbed the rest of the workout because I couldn't press without pain, and wasn't going to risk it with deadlifts. iced when I got home, will roll it out tonight and let it heal over the weekend. I've always had an issue with this one, so I might also schedule an appointment with the chiro.

not worried about this

[stronger]

oh and I did 4x5 chins yesterday and today. felt good, getting easier